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Inside Shaolin's wooded Mount Song valley, the most legible thing is not the famous wall but the cemetery: 228 tomb pagodas from seven dynasties, each with its name tablet, standing beside a temple whose main courtyard was founded in 495 CE.
Zhengzhou huimian is a bowl of lamb broth with uneven hand-pulled noodles, and the city's own recipe page is short, precise and free of folklore.
Pottery sherds found near Erligang in 1950 led archaeologists toward Zhengzhou’s Shang city. Its inner wall extends nearly seven kilometres, while the site now lies within the modern city.
Henan Museum was founded in a Kaifeng schoolyard in 1927, moved its collection twice under fire, and opened a pyramid-roofed building on Nongye Road in 1998.